I have an ethernet wire running from the cable modem to my bedroom, but the house is old. Can I hardwire this off the router, and use it as a switch t
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I connected mine to the ethernet port in my sons room, which is on the 2nd floor of our house. He now has his xbox and laptop connected directly to it and it extends our network over a larger area than the router in the basement can.
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Yes you can. That is exactly what I needed to do. I went from the modem to the switch. And then from the switch to two different routers.
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Yes. All you need to do is connect the plug link into one off the ethernet ports and simply connect the other plug link from the wall to the computer you are trying too get internet service on. I used this for 9 months for bringing internet to my garage and i never had any problems.
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If you have an adapter you can. Otherwise, you will need to hard wire it. Hard wiring is always better in terms of speed of internet delivery if you can work it out easily.
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In my configuration I'm running from a high speed cable modem to a 10/100 Mbps switch then to the ChannelMaster unit. But you pose an interesting question. I know that you can run Gigabit Ethernet over Coax. I do have a Gigabit switch that I can swap out for the 10/100. I will do that and see what speeds I end up with.
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Yes. I have my Amped hard wired to my providers router. The main router is in a back room office. The other is in the family room. I have a wire rn through the attic and down the wall where my home theater equipment is located. Most modern A/V manufacturers will issue firmware updates for your stuff. Your computer will show all available connections. You can select and deselect from either of them.
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I set it where I have the dsl modem going to the switch, then I have cat5e cables running into 3 different rooms to computers from the switch and a wireless router on the switch as well. So far we have had no problems with it.
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Negative. You need to have a pie injector or a pie switch that provides the voltage needed to power poe devices. A standard router will not power anything via Ethernet ports.
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It's a patch panel, not a switch. You need a switch to plug your router. A switch with Power over ethernet (POE).
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You can hard wire only one computer to it . There is only one Ethernet slot and two phone jacks for the DSL connection.
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No, unless you have (1) a router that can generate two free LAN lines that can be fed to the other end of the Ethernet jack, and (2) cable wiring that is CAT5 or newer (true for all new homes/installations). A cheaper solution might be to use a switch such as TRENDnet TE100-S5 5-Port Ethernet Switch (5 x 10/100Mbps Auto-MDIX RJ-45 Ports) that costs only $11.99 and will give you 4 ports instead of two.
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This is a switch. What you do is plug an Ethernet cable in one of the Non-POE ports and into your router's lan port. The 4 POE ports are for powering camera's, IP phones, etc...
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It's a switch not a router. You would have the line coming from your cable/dsl modem go to a router then it would go to the switch. The router handles the natting and the dhcp. If you cable/dsl modem is also a router then you can connect it directly to this for more wired connections.
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That depends on whether your modem has a router built into it. The way I always do it is to connect the router's WAN port to the modem, then connect the switch to the router's LAN port and the other devices.
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You cannot use this as a router, you would need to turn your computer off to work this switch.
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Yes, you can connect it to a wired port on your router. I have done this and it works well. I would imagine that connecting it to a switch which is connected to the router would also work fine, but I haven't tried that personally.
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Yes, it can be connected to either a switch or router port as long as it is a PoE (Power over Ethernet) port. In fact, in my house I have AP321's deployed in each case to Cisco layer2 switch and a Cisco ISR router.